VRScout

MAY 18, 2017

YouTube has been thinking about immersive video and the future of viewing experiences for awhile. The video platform became one of the first major players to allow 360° video sharing in 2015. Soon after, YouTube became the largest VR video platform over night by supporting playback within VR headsets like Google Cardboard.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

This week, Google officially announced the retirement of its flagship smart glasses product. In a company document , the firm confirmed the retirement of Google Glass Enterprise Edition effective this Wednesday (March 15). Google will also drop official support for its enterprise-grade immersive hardware on September 15, 2023.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Since starting VIVE in 2015, we’ve integrated technology with humanity. “We’re working with amazing partners to grow the open ecosystem and making immersive experiences more accessible with Viverse.” The Vive Guardian app is available free to download via the Google Play Store and Viveport. Image Credit: HTC Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Image by Google). Google is reportedly working on an AR operating system. In some of my past newsletters, I warned you that we shouldn’t forget about Google/Alphabet in the race to our mixed reality future. Now we have finally an official confirmation of the fact that Google is working on an AR device. Tilt Brush).

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 6, 2021

Earlier this summer, Google shut down yet another virtual reality app , the 3D objects library called Poly. It’s been used by millions of students since its launch in 2015. Google Expeditions also had five virtual tours of major league baseball stadiums and a tour of the International Space Station.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2017

In 2017, with so much talk of head-worn devices as the future of immersive computing, it’s easy to see that Glass was ahead of its time. With the Glass team at the time teasing, “we’ve outgrown the lab and so we’re officially ‘graduating’ from Google[x] to be our own team here at Google.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The Immerse Global Summit (IGS) will kick off its 2023 edition in Orlando, Florida, between 17 and 23 October. The Immerse Global Summit has earned an incredible reputation for its insightful speeches from some of the world’s leading XR brands. Andre Elijah Immersive Inc.

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2019

Back in April 2015, Oculus was a long way away from its current position as one of VR’s most influential organizations. One of these hoaxes was ThinkGeek’s ‘ VR Sensory Immersion Generator.’. Image Credit: Google. Below is just a small sample of some of the many attempts developers and companies have made to dupe VR consumers.

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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2017

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information, and so they’ve been long-time advocates for the open web. At Google I/O last week, the company announced that they’ll soon be shipping Google Chrome for Android with WebVR , and that they’re going to start experimental builds for WebAR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Efforts to construct and expand the Metaverse were sparked by Meta Platform’s major pivot in October, which saw Microsoft, NVIDIA, HTC VIVE, Qualcomm, Google, Varjo, and dozens of other tech giants enter the race for prime positioning to build the virtual and connected world. Immersive Experience. Immersive Media.

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VRScout

APRIL 11, 2018

One of the first festivals to bring VR to the masses with custom Google Cardboard headsets mailed to ticket holders back in 2016 , Coachella has aways been experimenting with immersive technology and exploring new ways they can bring the music festival experience to the rest of the world unable to attend. Image Credit: Coachella.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Samsung, in partnership with Qualcomm and Google, has announced plans to develop a new extended reality product. I myself switched from Apple to Samsung in 2015 specifically for Samsung’s Gear VR headset. But when Samsung cancelled the project, I switched to the Google Pixel to stay close to Google’s VR platform.

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EON Reality

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

To achieve accurate results safely and in a short space of time, Virtual and Augmented Reality technologies provide innovative and immersive, hands-on learning and practice. Sports experiences can be viewed anywhere with mobile Virtual Reality technology and headsets like Zeiss VR ONE and Google Cardboard.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 7, 2017

Google and Discovery expand the Discovery VR app with new VR travel series. Since launching August 2015, the Discovery VR app has accumulated over four million downloads and 123 million organic views. You can view the action in VR using the Google Daydream View headset and Google Cardboard, or on the web via Android and iPhone devices.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Volumetric video specialists 8i have announced their latest series B funding round has netted them a further $27 while also unveiling Holo, a mixed reality video app, powered by Google’s Tango technology. SEE ALSO Asus 'ZenFone AR' Google Tango, Daydream VR Phone Launched, Specs Revealed.

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Cats and VR

APRIL 24, 2017

During VRLA 2017 Spring Expo I ran into Jonathan Krusell, former Executive Producer at Mindshow and now Producer for Google Daydream. I told Jonathan that the Google Daydream booth at GDC kind of bored me and I was not impressed by Ubisofts Rabbids VR game demo. Just a tad bit bored with Google Daydream at GDC.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 31, 2018

In 2015, American entrepeneur Chris Milk brought us Clouds Over Sidra , showing audiences how VR technology could be employed as a powerful “empathy machine,” a term he used to describe the medium during a TED talk that has since gathered over 1.5 million views. . Image Credit: Red Cross.

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2018

The open metaverse is going to be built on web standards like the WebXR Device API (formly WebVR), but the larger community of web developers has been waiting to fully commit to building immersive WebVR experiences until there’s universal support in all web browsers. 106: Josh Carpenter at GDC 2015. 263: James McCrae at VRX 2015.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 8, 2016

InFormation is a two part (25 min) immersive documentary investigating the medium of Virtual Reality and creative use of the technology to build empathy and new forms of storytelling. Experimental non-linear forms of immersive storytelling point to a future where qualitative data and quantitative data intertwine.

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VRScout

JANUARY 24, 2017

The Google Spotlight Story is in the running for best animated short. The Google Spotlight Story film from Patrick Osborne, the director of Disney’s Oscar-nominated short film “Feast,” is a coming of age story about a girl growing up with her musician dad set to the song “No Wrong Way Home.”.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Games, as one of the prime sources of entertainment, could be more prominent by becoming more interactive and immersive. Market research reports have shown that in 2015 the revenue was $0.66 The leading producers of VR headsets like Sony, Oculus, Google, HTC, and Samsung, mainly focus on creating cost-effective devices.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

Google launches “Immersive Stream for AR”. Google has launched a new cloud service based on Stadia technology: dubbed “Immersive Stream for AR”, it lets you perform cloud rendering for augmented reality applications for mobile phones. Baidu’s XiRang platform wants to be the foundation of the Chinese metaverse.

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XROM

JULY 26, 2023

Singapore VR/AR conference announces speakers from Meta, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google, 3M, IMDA, HTC, among others. Global technology giants on the agenda include Meta, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google, Lenovo, and Qualcomm. Presenting exhibitors of the conference include NIPA, Niantic, Immersal, Dispelix, EnlightXR, and XPANCEO.

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Tech Trends VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

As early as 2015, Chris Milk brought us Clouds Over Sidra and showed how VR was indeed a powerful “empathy machine” as he described the medium in a TED talk that gathered over 1.5 The experience can be downloaded now from the Google Playstore and the iOS Apple Store. million views since then. VRScout (@VRScout) October 31, 2018.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 30, 2017

This is the first time a VR experience has actually landed a statuette, following a near-miss for Google Spotlight’s Pearl last year. This announcement follows back-t0-back “Best Director” wins for Iñárritu ( Birdman in 2015 and The Revenant in 2016), though obviously this is his first for work in VR.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 28, 2017

I had a chance to catch up with Blau at Google I/O on May 17th, 2017 where we talk about the state of the VR & AR industries and what some of the potential catalysts for consumer adoption might be. It’s clear that the technological roadmap for mobile computing has now started to include volumetric and immersive sensors.

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VRScout

JUNE 20, 2016

Born out of Rothenberg Ventures and first launched in 2015 in San Francisco, the expansion into Los Angeles is the company’s latest commitment to work with both Hollywood and social media talent in the world of immersive content. River Studios Los Angeles studio located at the iconic Culver Studios.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

We are vulnerable on mobile to Google and Apple because they make major mobile platforms. From a timing perspective, we are better off the sooner the next platform becomes ubiquitous and the shorter the time we exist in a primarily mobile world dominated by Google and Apple. We need to build both.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Resolution Games was also involved in its making , a title that does away with the standard side-scrolling gameplay for a more immersive first-person experience of physically shooting a slingshot at the 3D piggy fort. ” SEE ALSO Brilliant Sole Wants to Put a VR Controller in Your Shoes.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Users will still be able to see most of the real world in front of them — unlike virtual reality, which completely immerses the user in a computer-generated fantasyland, augmented reality layers computer-generated text and images on top of reality. All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 27, 2016

You may have read a couple stories here about haptic installations they produced for Verizon with the NFL and IndyCar in 2015. They also produced a NAS concert for KCRW’s Sound in Focus and a couple pieces with Google Daydream including NFL Immersed and rag & bone. Two Bit Circus Chief Content Officer, Nancy Bennett.

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VRScout

JULY 11, 2017

Google wants you to play with Blocks, this smartphone wants you to get rid of your headset, a new marketplace connecting content creators with funding, the price of the Oculus Rift is slashed, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… 1. GOOGLE WANTS YOU TO PLAY WITH BLOCKS. THIS SMARTPHONE WANTS TO MAKE HEADSETS OBSOLETE.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 14, 2023

Araujo also said that the firm will set up a dedicated organization for immersive product planning and R&D while collaborating “closely” with affiliate companies and partners – including “a mid-to-long-term collaboration with leading partners like Google and Qualcomm.”

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 25, 2018

In a press statement, the company says its US office will be “pivotal in realising the company’s ambitions to be the leading immersive technology engagement platform for consumers and businesses.” ” Since its founding in 2013, vTime has operated out of their Liverpool, UK-based studio. In April 2018, the company secured $7.6

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

.” Lets be honest, the last few years have seen some pretty wild speculation from industry analysts whilst the excitement and hype surrounding the most recent renaissance in immersive technology has ridden high. SEE ALSO What VR Headset Makers (not analysts) Have Actually Said About Sales Expectations.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

The team of DC Super-Villains will be hosting an immersive experience at San Diego’s Hard Rock Hotel from 10 am to 7 pm each day of the Con. 2015 San Diego Comic-Con live-action virtual reality experience inspired by The Strain. Suicide Squad” activities throughout the weekend.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

So what better way to transform the way visitors engage with the museum than by immersing them in unique content in virtual reality. The exhibit has a rotation of science content for a complete, room-scale immersive experience.

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